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...South, nor the familiar, raw Northern city slum (which Author Petry well described in The Street, 1946), but the wind-blown Connecticut town of Monmouth, where dark, violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make her story fresh and credible. Apart from a deplorable tendency toward short flights of bogus impressionist prose, she also has the easy writing ability to tell a warm, readable story...
According to Basil D. Henning, Master of Yale's Saybrook College, the "whole project can be regarded as successful." Sophomore seminars are Yale's counterpart to Harvard's House tutorial system...
...Saybrook's Bill Berkeley passed for two touchdowns, but got an assist from Adams' Jack King on one. With the score Adams 7, Saybrook 6, and 35 seconds left in the game, Berkeley passed into the end zone. King, trying to break up the play, batted the ball into the hands of Saybrook's Zab Zabrowski who made a sensational juggling catch. King scored the Adams touchdown on a 15-yard run. Tom Crump turned in a circus catch of a 30-yard King pass in the second period. Leaping high in the air, Crump knocked the ball from...
...strong at Yale; if an object is "shoe" it is desirable, if it is "black shoe" or "non-shoe" it is to be shunned. Even more than the Houses, the Yale Colleges mirror prevailing undergraduate prejudices; Calhoun, the "shoeiest" one, is flooded with applicants, while Jonathan Edwards, Trumbull, and Saybrook are ignored by freshmen. An organization with a black shoe reputation has an uphill fight to stay alive...
...Sunday morning several years ago, residents of Yale's Saybrook College threw a pizza at a group of townspeople on their way to church...